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February 2012

Tuesday February 7, 2012
Bryden MacDonald's Whale Riding Weather at the Sex Festival

Wednesday February 8, 2012
Divisadero - Michael Ondaatje and Daniel Brooks - Theatre Passe Muraille

Thursday February 9, 2012
bill bissett: problematics - UFV

Thursday February 9, 2012
The Long Poem Workshop - Jay MillAr

Thursday February 9, 2012
Problem Child & The End of Civilization - George F. Walker - Telus Studio Theatre

Thursday February 9, 2012
Moving Along - Chris Craddock - Roxy Theatre

Wednesday February 15, 2012
Write Here Readers Series - North Island College

Thursday February 16, 2012
2012 Gabriola Poetry Festival

Friday February 17, 2012
House - Daniel MacIvor - The ARTS Project Theatre

Saturday February 18, 2012
HOME FRONT, a reading series - Sharon Thesen

Thursday February 23, 2012
Talking Stick Festival presents In a World Created by a Drunken God

Friday February 24, 2012
Galiano Literary Festival - 2012

Saturday February 25, 2012
red diva projects - Marie Clements, Michelle St. John, Women from DTES Centre

Tuesday February 28, 2012
The Leisure Society - Trafalgar Studios - UK

March 2012

Thursday March 1, 2012
Fred Wah - Versefest in Ottawa

Thursday March 1, 2012
Gordon - Morris Panych - Revue Stage

Thursday March 1, 2012
Where the Blood Mixes - Kevin Loring - Remai Arts Centre

Friday March 9, 2012
Ms Thing - Vancouver Women in Film Festival - Embracing the Darkness

Saturday March 10, 2012
How To Write A Poem For The Queen: a workshop with the Parliamentary Poet Laureate

Wednesday March 21, 2012
BellaLuna's Fresco - Lucia Frangione - Shadbolt Centre and Cultch

Friday March 23, 2012
Words on the Water - Campbell River Writer's Festival 2012

April 2012

Friday April 13, 2012
Bordertown Cafe - Kelly Rebar - Toledo Repertoire Theatre

Thursday April 19, 2012
Down Dangerous Passes Road - Michel Marc Bouchard - Encore Theatre

Tuesday April 24, 2012
The Real World? - Michel Tremblay -Tarragon Theatre

Monday April 30, 2012
M.A.C. Farrant at Banff Centre in 2012
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A Guide to BC Indian Myth and Legend

By Ralph Maud

Boas, Teit, Hill-Tout, Barbeau, Swanton, Jenness, the luminaries of field research in British Columbia, are discussed, and their work in Indian folklore evaluated in this comprehensive survey of myth-collecting in B.C.



A Record of Writing
A Record of Writing

By Roy Miki

Traces the development of Poet laureate Bowering’s many writings through four decades.



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ABC of Reading TRG

By Peter Jaeger

Examines the writings of Steve McCaffery and bpNichol, with a special focus on their collaborative work as the Toronto Research Group (TRG).



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American Notebooks

By Marie-Claire Blais

An album of finely drawn literary portraits of writers, musicians, artists and social activists who influenced the life and work of Blais in the 1960s.



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An English Canadian Poetics, Vol. 1

By Robert Hogg

With an introduction by D.M.R. Bentley Essays on poetic theory written by Canadian poets from the late 19th century to 1918 that articulate the specific social, cultural and political circumstances under which their poetry was created.



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An Error In Judgement

By Dara Culhane

An analysis of the controversy surrounding the death of a Native child in Alert Bay, B.C.



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Anarcho-Modernism

By Ian Angus

Essays exploring key issues of politics and aesthetics in honour of the founding director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University.



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Anatolia Junction

By Fred A. Reed

As Fred A. Reed travels through the Middle East, the Balkans and Asia Minor, he concludes that Turkey’s Islamists are reappropriating the culture and beliefs that 70 years of secular fundamentalism have been unable to eradicate.



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Annihilated Time

By Jeff Derksen

Essays that explore the ways in which poetry, visual art and critical practices encounter “the long present neoliberal moment” of the imperialist agenda of globalization.



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Bambi and Me

By Michel Tremblay

Autobiographical pieces about how movies shaped the life of young Michel Tremblay.



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Beyond Recall

By Mary Meigs

A beautiful memoir that reads like the most exquisitely crafted fiction.



Birth of a Bookworm
Birth of a Bookworm

By Michel Tremblay

A tour of books that inspired Tremblay’s imagination.



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Bonbons Assortis / Assorted Candies

By Michel Tremblay

This delightful collection of eight autobiographical narratives inspired by Michel Tremblay’s childhood and youth offers the reader poignant and joyful childhood memories as varied as the assorted candies his mother hoarded under her bed, to be shared only on the most festive or dramatic of family occasions. Through the eyes of young Michel we see the lively, bustling household of Fabre Street and the events which profoundly shaped his view of the world in this exquisite remembrance of childhood past.



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bpNichol

By Stephen Scobie

Scobie illuminates Nichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory and the writing of Gertrude Stein, positing a cogent argument for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction.



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Bridges of Light

By Cyril E. Leonoff

This illustrated biography of one of the last great black-and-white photographers of the Pacific Northwest is also an extraordinary photo art book. Printed on wood-free paper.



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Building the West

By Donald Luxton

This award-winning second edition tells the stories, discovers the hopes and aspirations, and celebrates the successes and accomplishments of the early architects of British Columbia.



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Canadian Drama and the Critics

By L.W. Conolly

This lively, updated assortment of critical deliberations on contemporary Canadian drama is an ideal companion text to Modern Canadian Plays Volumes I and _II._ 



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Charles Olson at the Harbor

By Ralph Maud

A repudiation of Tom Clark’s carelessly biased Charles Olson: The Allegory of a Poet’s Life, this diligently researched biography by longtime Olson scholar, friend and correspondent Ralph Maud redeems the reputation of one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century.



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Circumstances Alter Photographs

By Michael Barnholden

On Friday, April 24, 1885, Captain James Peters took the world’s first battlefield photographs under fire at the battle of Fish Creek in the Canadian Northwest Territory of Saskatchewan. Neglected for over 120 years, these images literally shine new light on the War of 1885—particularly the second part of the campaign against the Indians under Big Bear, Poundmaker and Miserable Man. They are frankly astonishing in both their eerily haunting visual impact and as much by the mere fact that they even still exist.



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Coast Salish Essays

By Wayne Suttles

A careful selection from the work of the greatest living ethnographer of the Pacific Northwest.



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Conversations in Tehran

By Jean-Daniel LaFond

Filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond and author Fred A. Reed document the fall of Mohammed Khatami’s reform movement through candid conversations with Iranian artists, journalists and political activists.



Crimes and Mercies
Crimes and Mercies

By James Bacque

More than 9 million Germans died from deliberate Allied starvation and expulsion policies after WWII. At the same time, a food-aid program saved an estimated 80 million.



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Empire of Desire

By Thierry Hentsch

This second volume in Hentsch’s epic survey of the formative texts of the Western narrative tradition traces western civilization’s quest for immortality across a further four centuries through an examination of specific works by Moliére, Voltaire, Diderot, de Sade, Rousseau, Hegel, Melville, Flaubert, Joyce, Proust and others.



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Essays on George F. Walker

By Chris Johnson

The first book-length examination of the work of Canada’s most-produced and internationally recognized playwright, George F. Walker, who has not only created a substantial body of work, but also impressed it all with his unique “Walkeresque” stamp.



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EX MACHINA: Creating for the Stage

By Patrick Caux & Bernard Gilbert

In 1993 when Robert Lepage suggested to his colleagues that a specific identity and image be found for his next working group, he imposed one condition. The word “theatre” was not to be part of the name of the new company.



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Gabriel Dumont Speaks, Revised Edition

By Gabriel Dumont

In 1903, eighteen years after leading the Métis Army against the Northwest Expeditionary Force and the Northwest Mounted Police at Fish Creek, Duck Lake and Batoch, Louis Riel’s Adjuntant General, Gabrial Dumont, dictated his memoirs. The manuscript remained unpublished in the Manitoba Provincial Archives until its discovery there by Michael Barnholden in 1971. Translated here into English, it preserves a unique experience, offering us a rare opportunity to view one of the central events in the history of the Métis through the eyes of one of their key heros.



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George Bowering

By Eva-Marie Kröller

This first book-length study of Bowering explores the relationship between his work and the arts.



Great Lakes Suite
Great Lakes Suite

By David W. McFadden

Specially revised and edited, and for the first time in one complete volume, Great Lakes Suite includes A Trip Around Lake Ontario, A Trip Around Lake Erie and A Trip Around Lake Huron.



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griddle talk

By Carol Malyon & bill bissett

A series of literary conversations between Malyon, who writes within the objective bounds of standard English usage, and bissett, one of contemporary writing’s most exotic practitioners, working with the visual forms of language in his own non-hierarchic, phonetic orthography.



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How to Write

By derek beaulieu

How to Write is a perverse Coles Notes: a paradigm of prosody where writing as sampling, borrowing, cutting-and-pasting and mash-up meets literature. This collection of conceptual short fiction takes inspiration from Lautréamont’s decree that “plagiarism is necessary. It is implied in the idea of progress. It clasps the author’s sentence tight, uses his expressions, eliminates a false idea, replaces it with the right idea.”



Imperial Canada Inc.
Imperial Canada Inc.

By Alain Deneault

Imperial Canada Inc. sets out to ask a simple question: why is Canada home to more than 70% of the world’s mining companies?



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In Plain Sight

By Leslie A. Robertson

A remarkable collection of seven life stories from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, giving voice to women who are seldom heard on their own terms.



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In the Company of Strangers

By Mary Meigs

Based on the NFB production of The Company of Strangers, Meigs’s account of the film unfolds in an intricate meditation on time, old age and bonding.



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In the Midst

By Warren Tallman

Warren Tallman was catalyst, shelter and anchor to a whole generation of writers and poets, from the beat generation poets to the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school writers. In these pieces, Tallman introduces the reader to a world of literary companionship that shaped the language and thought of late 20th century North America.



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Indian Myths & Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America

By Franz Boas

This volume of First Nations myths and legends is an indispensable document in the history of North American anthropology.



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Justice In Our Time

By Roy Miki & Cassandra Kobayashi

How a community brought the issue of redress for the injustices of the 1940s to the forefront of public debate.



Lasagna
Lasagna

By Ronald Cross & Hélène Sèvigny

A biography of the most notorious of the 1990 Oka warriors.



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Lil'wat World of Charlie Mack

By Dorothy Kennedy & Randy Bouchard

Early in their ethnographic work, Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy were privileged to meet Charlie Mack, a fascinating character and a font of wisdom, exemplifying by his way of life, his skills in trapping and canoe-making, and his knowledge of the history of his people, the living world of the Lil’wat, which the young ethnologists were able to record on tape and in their notes and photographs. Most important among what Charlie Mack gave them was a wide corpus of stories; he was a master storyteller, holding his listeners spellbound with his animated and dramatic delivery in both Lil’wat and English. This book is a tribute to a long friendship; the result of the authors reflecting on a lifetime of listening to a man who had something to say.



Lily Briscoe
Lily Briscoe

By Mary Meigs

A compelling autobiography about the exercise of will, friendships and dreaming.



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Lions Gate

By Lilia D’Acres

Like all great historic landmarks, the Lions Gate Bridge remains a source of powerful, sometimes illuminating, sometimes mysterious stories of the people and times which gave birth to it.



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Living by Stories

By Harry Robinson

This third collection documents how the arrival of whites forever altered the Salish cultural landscape.



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Lost in North America

By John Gray

A personal, idiosyncratic tour of the collective work of art we call Canada.



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Making Theatre

By Sherrill Grace

The story of Pollock’s life from her family roots in New Brunswick through her pioneering years as a Canadian playwright to the present as she continues to make theatre.



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Margaret Atwood

By Frank Davey

Davey reveals Atwood’s extraordinary facility with language as well as her mistrust of it, and offers a “glossary” of recurrent Atwood images and symbols that unveil the hidden level in her writing.



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Meanwhile

By bp Nichol

A thoughtful and provocative 30-year record of Nichol’s approaches to textual production.



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Muthologos

By Charles Olson

Olson once defined “Muthologos” as “what is said about what is said,” which encompasses a breadth of discourse that would define the near and far range of where the poet’s mind went in a lifetime’s intent to go places. In this new compilation of Charles Olson’s transcribed lectures and interviews, we finally get all of what is preserved of a life of talk, allowing Muthologos to stand, along with The Maximus Poems, Collected Poems, Collected Prose and Selected Letters as one of the “standard texts” of this great poet’s oeuvre.



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Nature Power

By Harry Robinson

Features tales of the shoo-MISH, or “nature helpers.” 



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News

By Drew Hayden Taylor

In this collection of short humorous essays originally written for the popular media, playwright, novelist and screenwriter Drew Hayden Taylor sends his readers fascinating and exotic postcards from his globetrotting adventures, always on the lookout for the NEWS about aboriginal peoples around the world.



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No Plaster Saint

By Nancy Knickerbocker

A crusading socialist and an absolute pacifist, Mildred Osterhout Fahrni walked with J. S. Woodsworth, Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. The extraordinary story of one of Canada’s pioneer peacemakers.



Other Losses
Other Losses

By James Bacque

Other Losses caused an international scandal when first published in 1989 by revealing that Allied Supreme Commander Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle caused the death of some 1,000,000 German captives in American and French internment camps through disease, starvation and exposure from 1944 to 1949, as a direct result of the policies of the Western Allies, who, with the Soviets, ruled as the Military Occupation Government over partitioned Germany from May 1945 until 1949.

This updated third edition of Other Losses exists not to accuse, but to remind us that no country can claim an inherent innocence of or exemption from the cruelties of war.



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Outsider Notes

By Lynnette Hunter

Tough-minded reappraisals of canonicity, modernism, postmodernism, marginality and post-coloniality in Canadian writing.



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Paul Martin & Companies

By Alain Deneault

A piercing look at what it means when a Canadian prime minister puts his own private interests first.



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Peregrinations

By Robert Enright

Informed and considered interviews with the most influential artists of our time. Enright takes us into the environments, both imaginative and actual, that have shaped their personal and artistic histories.



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Performing National Identities

A collection of 18 original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by scholars and drama specialists in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary and Japan.



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Persian Postcards

By Fred A. Reed

Persian Postcards, the fruit of Fred Reed’s travels to the Islamic Republic as both journalist and impassioned observer, is an attempt to suggest the depth and complexity, the tragedy and raw beauty of this ancient culture. Reed examines the Iranian reasons for The Iran-Iraq war, sheds new light on the Iran-Contra scandal, and looks at Iranian history, in its meeting with the peculiar traditions of Shi’ite Islam. Persian Postcards is more than a journalistic report, an academic treatise, or a travel book, although it enfolds elements of all three.



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Poet to Publisher

Documents Olson’s influence on The New American Poetry, Allen’s visionary and revolutionary anthology.



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Rational Geomancy

By Steve McCaffery & bpNichol

Reports on translation, the-book-as-machine and the search for non-narrative prose.



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Salonica Terminus

By Fred A. Reed

In his extensive travels in the Balkans, Reed encounters a landscape inscribed with a shocking testimony of ethno-racialist aspirations.



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Shattered Images

By Fred A. Reed

Discusses all of the major Islamic faiths in its search for the origins of contemporary fundamentalist movements.



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Signs of Literature

By Kenneth James Hughes

The history of language as a made thing—a linguistic and structuralist primer.



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Strange Comfort

By Sherrill Grace

Strange Comfort collects the best of Sherrill Grace’s many published essays on the novelist and writer Malcolm Lowry, along with new pieces that incorporate her contemporary approach to his work. Lowry was an intensely autobiographical writer, a quality not appreciated during his lifetime. Today, critical perspectives have changed considerably, and Lowry’s anxiety about writing elements of his own life into fiction invites critical reassessment. Many of these essays offer a fresh look at Lowry’s attempts to apprehend and portray the writer, writing.



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Subject to Change

By Renee Rodin

Composed of autobiographical stories that sketch the resonant heights and depths of a memoir, Subject to Change is a series of self-portraits along the road of a life well-lived. Each story is an articulate, intelligent, passionate record of how an encounter with a significant “other,” be it a parent, a lover, a neighbor, a child, a grandchild, a politician, or a friend, has changed and shaped the humanity, character, and community—the “subject”—of the writer. What makes this book such a great read is Renee Rodin’s masterful ability to show the reader that things we usually think of as too ordinary to talk about or too extraordinary to be able to communicate to others are often the most formative elements of our social lives.



Takeover in Tehran
Takeover in Tehran

By Massoumeh Ebtekar & Fred A. Reed

A revealing first-hand insider account by Iran’s first female vice president, Massoumeh Ebtekar, of the 1979 revolutionary student movement which captured the American Embassy in Tehran.



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Taking My Life

By Jane Rule

Discovered in her papers in 2008, Jane Rule’s autobiography is a rich and culturally significant document that follows the first twenty-one years of her life: the complexities of her relationships with family, friends and early lovers, and how her sensibilities were fashioned by mentors or impeded by the socio-cultural practices and educational ­politics of the day.



textual vishyuns
textual vishyuns

By Carl Peters

Although internationally recognized as a pioneer of visual, concrete, sound and performance poetry, few people recognize bill bissett’s work in the visual arts to be of equal aesthetic importance. While his drawings, paintings, collages and three-dimensional assemblages were the subject of a 1984 Vancouver Art Gallery solo exhibition, Fires in th tempul, despite bissett’s substantial and ongoing contributions to the practice of the avant-garde tradition in art, very little critical work exists on his poetry, and almost no theoretical discourse exists on his visual work.



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The Box Closet

By Mary Meigs

A narrative woven of her parents’ diaries and letters that integrates Meigs’s discoveries as a daughter and granddaughter.



The Burden of Office
The Burden of Office

By Joseph Tussman

Lucid, original and ultimately wise, this book is as much a work of literature as it is of philosophy.



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The Chilliwacks and Their Neighbors

By Oliver N. Wells

Active ethnography through conversations, legends, articles, and a naturalist’s guide of the Chilliwack Native people and their area.



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The Decline of the Hollywood Empire

By Hervé Fischer

Heralds an inevitable move from 35 mm to digital distribution which will level the creative playing field between the towering Hollywood empire and marginalized independent artists and producers.



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The Medusa Head

By Mary Meigs

A sensitive psychological portrait of a stormy three-way lesbian relationship.



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The Pleasure of the Crown

By Dara Culhane

An in-depth analysis of the 130-year history of the Aboriginal title issue in BC, focusing in particular on the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en case.



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The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories

By Henry Tate

Henry W. Tate, who died in 1914, was an important Tsimshian informant to ethnographer Franz Boas.



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The Recovery of the Public World

A collection of texts and talks which address the work of poet Robin Blaser.



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The Salish People: Volume I

By Charles Hill-Tout

The first volume of a four-volume set rich in stories and factual information on the Salish people of the Pacific Northwest.



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The Salish People: Volume II

By Charles Hill-Tout

Includes the Origin Myth as recounted by a storyteller whose mother saw Captain Vancouver sail into Howe Sound in 1792.



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The Salish People: Volume III

By Charles Hill-Tout

Stories of the people of the Fraser Valley from Vancouver to Chilliwack, with the earliest account of BC archaeological sites.



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The Salish People: Volume IV

By Charles Hill-Tout

This volume deals with the Sechelt and the South-Eastern Tribes of Vancouver Island and includes a bio-bibliography of Charles Hill-Tout, as well as miscellaneous short pieces of special interest, such as letters and a review of Franz Boas’ book about Bella Coola.



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The Terror of the Coast

By Chris Arnett

An extensively detailed reconstruction of the war between the First Nations and Vancouver Island’s colonial government.



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Theatre and AutoBiography

By Sherrill Grace

This groundbreaking exploration of an increasingly prominent interdisciplinary realm draws on a wide range of contemporary theorists and playwrights. The breadth of styles and performances discussed here is extraordinary.



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Then We Were One

By Fred A. Reed

Shocked by the death of his younger brother, Fred Reed sets out on a series of journeys of discovery and understanding. By way of Iran in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution; the Anatolian highlands of the mystic Bediuzzaman Said Nursi; in pursuit of ancient and modern iconoclasts in Syria and Lebanon; he comes under the spell of Islam. In its embrace he finds a renewed brotherhood; in its discipline, liberation.



They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever
They Write Their Dreams on the Rock Forever

By Annie York & Chris Arnett & Richard Daly

’Nlaka’pamux elder Annie York explains the red ochre inscriptions written on the rocks and cliffs of the lower Stein Valley. Readings of these inscriptions-the lasting written record of the dreams and visions experienced by both neophyte hunters and practiced shamans-open a discussion of some of the issues in rock art research that relate to ‘notating’ and ‘writing’ on the landscape, around the world and through the millenia. A landmark publication on the evolution of writing.



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This Is My Own (hardcover)

By Muriel Kitagawa

Letters written following the uprooting of the Japanese-Canadian community in late 1941.



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Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism

By Anne Geddes Bailey

Investigates the troubling relationship between narrative meaning and representations of violence within Timothy Findley’s novels.



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Too Good to Be True

By Bev Christensen

Examines the question of who is to control North America’s vital water and power resources in the 21st century.



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Tracing The Paths

By Roy Miki

A wide spectrum of readings of bpNichol’s challenging and innovative long poem.



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Transmission Difficulties

By Ralph Maud

Ralph Maud delves into the mystery of Boas’s alleged “translations” of the stories gathered by his chief Tsimshian informant, Henry Tate.



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Truth or Death

By Thierry Hentsch

In the tradition of James Frazer, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell, Thierry Hentsch retells, with new urgency and a keen critical eye, “the story of the West” that shapes our perception of the world. Yet, “the story of the West” does not exist. Only a reading of its most seminal texts—from Ulysses to Hamlet, from the Torah to the Gospels, from Plato to Descartes—can bring it alive.



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Twelve Opening Acts

By Michel Tremblay

An account of Tremblay’s discovery of the theatre, from his first recognition at the age of six of how the imagination is actually a public construct, to his winning of a drama competition with his first play.



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Two Houses Half-Buried in Sand

By Chris Arnett & Beryl Mildred Cryer

A vital collection of writings collected during the Depression, first published in Victoria’s oldest newspaper.



Vancouver: A Visual History
Vancouver

By Bruce Macdonald

This stunning full-colour historical atlas brings alive Vancouver’s first 14 decades.



Vancouver Anthology
Vancouver Anthology

By Stan Douglas

First published in 1991, this larger format, new edition coincides with a renewal of the Or Gallery’s mandate to incite and promote critical discourse both within and outside of the Vancouver art community.



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Women in a World at War

By Madeleine Gagnon

Madeline Gagnon asks why women have not found a way to put an end to war, why they continue, from generation to generation, to raise sons who make war and oppress women, and what stake women themselves might have in war.



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Write It on Your Heart

By Harry Robinson

Write It on Your Heart features stories collected over a ten-year period: true stories about the origin of the world; the creation of human beings; the coming of the white man; and what really happened in the post contact world of North America. This critically acclaimed collection, newly reformatted as the first of an ongoing three-part series, stands as a monument to the epic world of Harry Robinson.



Thursday February 2, 2012 in Meta-Talon

How to Bank Your Life on Speculative "Futures"

Jonathan Ball interviews Garry Thomas Morse about various speculative “futures”:

In two volumes of The Chaos! Quincunx, I use what William S. Burroughs called the “fold-in” method, which feels rather like battering some batter in a bowl. This process is exciting, because of its sense of immediacy. I’m never quite sure what the characters are going to do next!

Thursday January 26, 2012 in Meta-Talon

For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again Comes to Kamloops

Michel Tremblay’s For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again comes to Kamloops:

They may seem like everyday moments — and in many ways they are — but, with Lorne Cardinal and Margo Kane playing the only two characters, the play becomes “an homage to his mother,” Leyshon said.

Specks cover Monday January 23, 2012 in Meta-Talon

Anis Shivani Interviews Michael McClure

Anis Shivani interviewed Beat Poet Michael McClure On Jim Morrison, The Doors, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac for The Huffington Post on March 03, 2011:

Shivani: Is Olson the major figure in American poetry after Pound?

McClure: I do not like seeing poetry as literature rather than art and I’m not happy with the separation of Poetry and the sister arts, I prefer to see Art as Art. I perceive that a major figure after Pound would be Jackson Pollock, and instead of looking at “American” Poetry as William Carlos Williams exhorted all to do, I would look worldwide at the poetry of D.H. Lawrence, Federico Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and of course Charles Olson, and all.

On the Material Thursday January 12, 2012 in Meta-Talon

Direct Harkening: A Review of On the Material

Andrew Vaisius reviews 2011 BC Book Prize Winner On the Material:

This poetry burns straight into your thoughts with a third degree of truth. Words matter. They aren’t frilly or sentimental, hoity-toity or academic. Collis writes in a language unencumbered by tired cliché or overwrought descriptions. His is a direct harkening, devoid of affectation, expressing the gut endurance of each sparking woman/man capable of the “natural brilliance of the human spirit.”

Spring 2012 Catalogue

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All Is Flesh

Yannick Renaud
Translated by Hugh Hazelton
Poetry

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Bolsheviki

David Fennario
Drama

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Chinese Blue

Weyman Chan
Poetry

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Crossing the Continent

Michel Tremblay
Translated by Sheila Fischman
Fiction

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Davie Street Translations

Daniel Zomparelli
Poetry

Imperial Canada Inc.
Imperial Canada Inc.

Alain Deneault
Translated by Fred A. Reed & Robin Philpot
Non-Fiction

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Maleficium

Martine Desjardins
Translated by Fred A. Reed & David Homel
Fiction

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Modern Canadian Plays, Vol. I - 5th Edition


Edited by Jerry Wasserman
Drama

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Specks

Michael McClure
Poetry

Taking My Life cover
Taking My Life

Jane Rule
Non-Fiction

textual vishyuns
textual vishyuns

Carl Peters
Non-Fiction

The Book of Esther cover
The Book of Esther

Leanna Brodie
Drama

Tombs of the Vanishing Indian cover
Tombs of the Vanishing Indian

Marie Clements
Drama

Turkana Boy cover
Turkana Boy

Jean-François Beauchemin
Translated by Jessica Moore
Fiction

Vigil, Second Edition cover
Vigil - 2nd Edition

Morris Panych
Drama


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